The Domineering King of the Netherworld and His Sweetheart

147. Who Is the Real Genius

Translator: Ning LL

Hearing that voice, the King looked to Sophora with an indifferent look.

Sophora who had just flew out from the crack walked over with large strides as speaking. The cape on his body had already disappeared. He looked just like a handsome man around thirty with his chiseled face and a hawk nose. However, the expression on his face seemed a bit rigid, which made him look very glum.

There were around seven or eight of his subordinates behind him. The rest of his people had either died or been stuck in the Ice World.

Sophora’s grudge with King of the Netherworld had lasted for one hundred thousand years. After so long, no one had remembered the issues between them. However, according to his attitude toward the King in the Ice Palace, clearly he didn’t have the intention to make the King’s life easy. Therefore, now Sophora had come to look for the King’s trouble again.

Feng Xi who had just indentured Ice Qilin was in a good mood now. Hearing Sophora’s words, he didn’t jump up straightly. Instead, he looked at the man up and down with a surprised look. Because he… didn’t know that guy!

“Old man, who are you?”

“You brat! Who are you calling now?” Sophora was irritated by Feng Xi’s words at once with his complacent face turning sullen. Although he was already more than one hundred thousand years old, no one had ever dared to call him an old man in front of his face. The boy obviously had pushed Sophora’s button.

As Feng Xi heard that, he looked around and scratched his head, “I think I’m talking to you!”

“You…” Sophora was choked with words. Perhaps it never occurred to him that Feng Xi would admit that so directly, so he only stared at the latter with a glum look.

“Hahaha… what a fool!” As Ice Qilin had just recovered from the strike, it heard their conversation. Then the beast couldn’t help but chortle. No one knew whom he was laughing at.

“Shut up! You are not allowed to laugh!” Sophora’s face turned cold immediately.

Although he could do nothing to the King and Feng Xi, he would never allow anyone else to mock at him, including Ice Qilin, the spiritual beast, due to his pride. Then he glared at Ice Qilin instantly. Unfortunately, he forgot that Ice Qilin wasn’t easy to deal with and its temper was much hotter than Sophora’s. As long as the beast decided something, nothing would change its mind. Since Sophora forbad the beast to laugh, it would laugh even harder.

Also, Ice Qilin had happened to be choked with resentment after being provoked by the boy. Sophora just gave the beast a way to vent its anger.

“Well, I wasn’t laughing at you. However, since you want to admit it by yourself, then maybe I was.”

Ice Qilin said that with a most carefree shrug. The beast was never afraid of anything. Even though Sophora seemed quite powerful, Ice Qilin was no pushover. If they got into a fight, it would be hard to say who would be the victor.

Sophora had taken the beating twice, which got him furious. Simmered with rage, he nearly lost all of his conscience. With his clenched fists giving out crackling sound, he gnashed his teeth and said slowly, “Ice Qilin, you are looking for your own death!”

Ice Qilin snorted and wanted to refute Sophora. Suddenly, the boy suddenly jumped out.

“Little Ice, come one, kick his ass! I’ll give moral support to you!” Feng Xi patted Ice Qilin and said seriously.

Ice Qilin nearly choked to death by its own saliva. It couldn’t believe that it had to clean up the mess that the boy had made. ‘He’s just so shameless.’ The beast had planned to fight against Sophora, no matter how big the fight would be. However, since it had been tricked by the boy before, it was happy to see the boy getting into trouble. Then Icy Qilin shook its head, “He’s right. You are a useless boy. You can only ask others to fix the trouble you have made. I think you’ll be like this for your whole life.”

“Little Ice, this is assaulting!” Feng Xi said indignantly.

“Then why don’t you fight by yourself?” Ice Qilin had learned to ignore the boy’s face and his words.

“When did I ever make any trouble? I don’t know this old man at all.” Feng Xi wasn’t not a fool. Hearing Ice Qilin throwing the groundless accusation to him, he retorted the latter at once.

Ice Qilin also knew that he had got it wrong because he had uttered those words so quickly. However, he still refused to admit that. Having glanced at the King, it said in a low voice, “It’s you or your leader. You guys should finish this by yourselves. I am not your bodyguard. You have made the trouble by yourselves. They all say that women are the root of all the troubles. I think that men are.”

“What do you mean?” Feng Xi didn’t understand the beast’s last words at all.

“Haven’t you noticed that?” Ice Qilin sized the boy up and down with an astonished look.

“Notice what?” Feng Xi seemed very confused.

Ice Qilin behaved like an experienced guy and patted on the boy’s shoulder, saying gently, “Wicked boy, think about it, your leader is so outstanding and extraordinary a man. There must be a lot of people having a crush on him. I can see it with my sharp eyes that you and your leader should be a couple. It also means that you’ll have lots of enemies in the dark, such as this Sophora. It has been one hundred thousand years, he still holds the grudges now, which shows how deep his love toward your leader is. He must be missing your leader the whole time. Though he seems to want to revenge, he actually— I am clever enough to make the deduction. He’s the type of guy who will let his love beget hate!”

“So?” Feng Xi goggled his eyes. The answer was bursting out his brain.

“So what, Sophora wants to take away your man.” Ice Qilin thumped on Feng Xi and said with certainty.

Ice Qilin suddenly raised its voice and nearly roared the last words out with its red eyes flashing weird red light. The beast was incited by its own conclusion. Ice Qilin suddenly felt that it so intelligent that it could think of that.

“No!” Feng Xi screamed with his face turning red in anger. He ran to the King at once and held the latter’s arm tightly while claiming in a loud voice, “My leader is mine! No one could take him away from me!”

Ice Qilin shuddered and realized that it had just cried those words out loud.

As the beast looked at Sophora closely, it found the latter already trembling in rage. If this man had a beard, it might be blown up. Sophora glowered at the beast as if he wanted to tear it apart, the latter suddenly felt guilty for no reason. However, Ice Qilin was the kind of beast which would never admit its fault. After it felt guilty for a while, it stood uprightly and goggled at Sophora aggressively.

‘I am talking about you, now what?’

After that, Ice Qilin walked to Feng Xi and didn’t forget to provoke the latter, “See, he didn’t deny it. Look how strong your rival in love is. Do you still think that you still stand a chance? He can kill a cultivator like you with only one finger.”

“If I am as old as he is, I’ll definitely be powerful than him.” Feng Xi was totally unconvinced.

Ice Qilin knew that Feng Xi would say that and had already thought of the response, “There are so many geniuses in this world and also a lot of people who are more talented than you. You are a young boy indeed, but Sophora is also a famous guy. It was said that he was a super genius and became famous one hundred thousand years ago. When he was at your age, he had already become an expert in the Exalt God realm. Look at you… Humph, don’t tell others that I am your Demon Beast!”

Feng Xi was provoked at once.

He hadn’t disdained the beast, and the latter had already disdained him?

“Don’t talk nonsense when you know nothing. Who told you that I am less talented than him?” Feng Xi always thought that his cultivation level was quite impressive. However, after hearing Ice Qilin’s words, he suddenly felt himself so lame.

“I think you are awful.” Ice Qilin raised its head to look at the sky and totally ignored Feng Xi’s words.

Feng Xi got a bit awkward and pulled the King’s sleeve.

The King casted a cold glance at Ice Qilin and then touched Feng Xi’s head to comfort the latter while saying in a tender voice, “Don’t listen to him. Xi is an excellent boy. Someone is just as blind as a bat.”

“Really?” Feng Xi raised his head and looked at the King with his watery eyes.

“Of course.” The King nodded while looking affectionately at the boy who was eager to be encouraged.

“Then tell me about my advantages.” Feng Xi was still very concerned about Ice Qilin’s words and urged the King to tell him why he was so excellent.

The King didn’t even need to think. He pinched Feng Xi’s cheek and coaxed him, “There are so many. Take your cultivation level as an example. Other people who started cultivating from childhood wouldn’t reach God Sovereign realm. Although there are certain ones who have reached God Sovereign realm or Exalt God realm when they were young, it is because they have cultivated for dozens of years. Xi, you are different. You have become an expert in God Sovereign realm from zero in a year. So, Xi, you are the real genius for sure!”

As Feng Xi listened to that, he found the King’s words very reasonable. Then he gave out a beaming smile, “That’s right, that’s right, that is true!”

Ice Qilin and Sophora stared at Feng Xi with their eyes wide open and an obvious astonished look on their faces as if they were looking at a ghost. Ice Qilin was even more surprised, because it had just sneered at Feng Xi by saying that he had cultivated so slowly.